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Cpl. Christopher Westley Dickens
British Army 4th Hussars (Queens Own)
(d.3rd May 1915)
Corporal Christopher Dickens, 4th Hussars (Queens Own) died on 3rd of May 1915, at No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station. France, from injuries and the effect of gas.
Christopher was born in the first quarter in 1886 in Chelsea, London. His parents were William James Dickens who died in 1905, and Ellen Dickens. In 1901 at the age of 15 he was working as a gardener in (St Mary's Vicarage), Upper Froyle, Alton, Hampshire. In the 1911 census he is a Private in the 4th Hussars, at The Royal Artillery & Cavalry Barracks, Butt Road, Colchester England.
In his older brother William's War Records the family was living in Chawston in 1913, (William had also enlisted in the 4th Hussars). Christopher was a Reservist, and was called up on outbreak of hostilities and enlisted in Bedford. He was awarded the British War & Victory Medals. He is remembered on Roxton War Memorial, Bedfordshire.
Burial in 1915 at Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, France.
Newspaper reports, 28th of May 1915 in The Bedfordshire Times & Independent. Mrs Dickens of Chawston has received an intimation from the War Office that her son who was a Reservist, and was called up on outbreak of hostilities, has succumbed to injuries and the effect of gas. He died 24 hours after having reached the hospital.
30th of July 1915 in The Bedfordshire Times & Independent. Roxton; A memorial service was held in the parish church on Sunday evening to the memory of Christopher Dickens, of the Hussars, who died of gas poisoning
